I couldn’t be more thrilled to host the premiere of the new Mars Red Sky video for the track “Hovering Satellites.” Stranded in Arcadia, the Bordeaux fuzz-roller trio’s second album and Listenable Records debut from which the song comes, is easily among the best records I’ve heard this year (review here), refining the ultra-warm tones of Mars Red Sky‘s 2011 self-titled debut (review here) and complementing them with a far-out heavy psych expansion. I can’t think of another album that’s come along in 2014 that I’ve gone back to as much even since doing the review, so yeah, pretty much any chance I get to talk about how awesome it is, I’m gonna take it.

The new video is directed by Colin Manierka and it blends live footage (captured by Bartosch Salmanski) with psychedelic color work, space scenes and wave patterns, all feeding into the atmosphere of the song itself. We do indeed get to see the satellite hovering in orbit, as well as some artful details of Mars Red Sky — guitarist/vocalist Julien Pras, bassist/vocalist Jimmy Kinast and drummer Matgaz — on stage, but of course the highlight is the song itself, which perfectly encapsulates Stranded in Arcadia‘s accomplished melodic sensibility, heavy grooving and memorable songcraft. I’m a total nerd for the album, but the video makes my day anyhow.

Mars Red Sky recorded Stranded in Arcadiawith Gabriel Zander in Brazil following their visas being denied by US customs — they had originally planned to put it to tape in the California desert — and the band is just off tour in Europe and preparing to head out again in June with appearances slated at Hellfest in Clisson and Germany’s Stoned from the Underground festival. Dates below.

Stranded in Arcadiais available now in Europe and out June 10 in North America on Listenable Records.

[…] French riff experts Mars Red Sky will release their new LP Stranded in Arcadia on June 10 via Listenable Records. With a sound that hovers between experimental doom rock and 70′s psych pop, Mars Red Sky’s sound intrigues and attracts; each song a cosmic ritual of solar burning fuzz and reverberated atmospheres. Considered one of the greats of the European heavy psych scene, Mars Red Sky have gained international recognition thanks to constant touring and an unquestionably unique sound based on powerful grooves, melodic, aerial guitar riffs and ethereal vocals. In advance of the release of Stranded in Arcadia, Mars Red Sky releases a tripped-out music video for the new song “Hovering Satellites”, which makes its world premiere today via The Obelisk, who states that the clip, “blends live footage (captured by Bartosch Salmanski) with psychedelic color work, space scenes and wave patterns, all feeding into the atmosphere of the song itself” and that “of course the highlight is the song itself, which perfectly encapsulates Stranded in Arcadia’s accomplished melodic sensibility, heavy grooving and memorable songcraft.” Check out Mars Red Sky’s “Hovering Satellites” video. […]

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